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• I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, People, Helping

  Marcus Garvey (1987). “Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, Univ of California Press

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• There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

  Wolf Kahn

  Art, Skills, Prejudice

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• The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Effort, Levels

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• We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Shapes, Individual

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Sea, Fairy Stories, Long

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• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Purpose, Winner

  Denis Waitley (1996). “Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Spiritual, Light, Ties

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• I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Curves, Color, Space

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

  Bernie Worrell

  Add, Recipes, Envelopes

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• If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Struggle, Men, Fire

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.

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• Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

  Robert Jastrow

  Biblical, Men, Light

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• Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Should Have, Principles, Mathematics

  Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Greek

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  Timothy Morton

  Our World, Earth, Faces

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• I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty

  Jae Hee

  Unique, Style, Individual

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• When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Attitude, Humorous, Moving

  "Golden Gate and Other Stories". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1982.

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• People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Bored, Would Be, Routine

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

  Ken Block

  Ice, Snow, Variables

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• From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Bible, Christian, Teaching

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”

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• The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love Life, Sick, Mind

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.1, DeVorss & Company

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• For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Athlete, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Determination, Doe

  "Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.

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• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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